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The Troy college recently signeda 10-year lease with 400 Jordam Road LLC. The school will pay approximately $605,000p a year to lease 36,557 square feet of Hudson Valley’s popular paramedic program will occupyg about half of thenew space. The schoop also will move its respiratory care programn and a that trains employees forarea businesses, accordin to Stephen Cowan, director of the college’s physicalo plant. The remainder of the leased spacew willhouse ’s Next Step office, a communications workerr training program coordinated by the college.
Those departments all currently are locatedx inHudson Valley’s 90,000-square-foot Hy Rosenblum Administratiom Center, a 1940s era building that Cowa n said needs major renovations. “It’s a tired old building. We are lookin at total renovationsor demolition,” he But the college decided to lease spac e from the through 400 Jordan Road LLC for 10 years while the college decides whether it should overhaul or tear down the Hy Rosenblumj building. The college continues to grow, but because of the economy it does not have the mone to renovate the current buildingright now, Cowam said.
Hudson Valley is planning to hire a consultin g firm this summer to help officialx decide the most cost effective way to deal with theRosenblukm building. helped Hudson Valley negotiatedsthe lease. The collegs plans to have the four programs and departments move into the new spacwe in North Greenbush before the start of classeson Aug. 31. The buildinh previously had been used as office space forVerizoh workers, Cowan said.